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1. Mai 2023 · His death, at Sunnybrook Hospital, was confirmed by his publicist, Victoria Lord. She did not specify a cause, but Mr. Lightfoot had had a number of health problems in recent years.
2. Mai 2023 · Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk singer and songwriter whose ballads captured Canada’s “spirit,” has died at the age of 84. Lightfoot’s cause of death was “natural causes,” his publicist...
1. Mai 2023 · Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Sundown,” died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84....
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A childhood performer on local radio and at regional music festivals, Lightfoot wrote his first song, The Hula Hoop Song, in 1955, while still in high school. "A lot of the images in my songs are drawn from this kind of country," the singer-songwriter said of Orillia, in a 1967 interview with CBC-TV's Telescope. "I've been a lot of places and I've ...
After earning accolades at home in the late 1960s, Canada's troubadour broke through internationally in the 1970s after signing with Warner Records in the U.S., making a splash at the start of that decade with the release of the single If You Could Read My Mind, now a folk standard. Lightfoot followed that up, over the next six years, with what bec...
In the course of his long career, Lightfoot conquered several illnesses, including a bout of Bell's palsy and, in his early performing years, alcoholism. He beat the addiction in the 1980s. In September 2002, the country was on tenterhooks when news broke that Lightfoot had been airlifted to hospital with severe stomach pains, just as he was about ...
He took the premature report of his death in 2010 in stride, and later performed a high-profile Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame concert with The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie while maintaining his own touring schedule. In addition to early adopters like fellow folkies Ian and Sylvia Tyson, and Peter, Paul and Mary, a wide range of artists recorde...
In mid-April 2023, Lightfoot's declining health caused him to cancel the remainder of his 2023 tour. [81] Lightfoot died of natural causes at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto on May 1, 2023, at the age of 84. [82]
2. Mai 2023 · A statement on Lightfoot's official Facebook page said he died of natural causes at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday. Lightfoot hosted a country and western show on BBC television in...
1. Mai 2023 · Canadian folk-rock troubadour Gordon Lightfoot has died at 84.
